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NYC Best Weekday Bets

We’re back for a new round of NYC Best Weekday Bets! Each day will feature a top pick in the areas of 1. fitness (active), 2. comedy, 3. culture, 4. film, 5. food + drink, 6. free, 7. music and 8. staying in (because let’s face it, sometimes you just want to not leave your couch). Get ready for lots of good stuff INCLUDING plenty of movie screenings (like The Babadook, aka our GIF theme), Ilana Glazer face time, a Courtney Barnett show and MORE // details as follows:

Monday, July 23

COMEDY: Tonight’s Butterboy (w/ Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla and Maeve Higgins) at Littlefield is gonna be a good one! Sam Taggart, Hari Kondabolu, Samantha Ruddy and MORE are all on the bill, and tickets are just $10.

CULTURE: Head to BRIC House for The Generator Series with host Ilana Glazer! She’ll be interviewing activists and politicians (tonight’s guests are Zephyr Teachout, Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg) over the course of a four-night residency, and tickets will run you $25 a pop. (And while we’re on the subject of Bell House programming, Jessica Walter aka Lucille Bluth is the guest of honor at tonight’s Ask Me Another! Tickets are $15-$20.)

FILM: I mean, OBVIOUSLY head to Syndicated for a $4 screening of The Babadook (dook, dook)!

FOOD + DRINK: Hit up the High Line for City Flavors: A Night of Local Bites tonight! Tickets start at $95.

FILM: ‘Tis the season o’ free film screenings! Hit up Videology for an advance screening of Nico, 1988, or

FOOD + DRINK: Head to Brooklyn Bread Lab tonight for Women In Pastry: A Conversation ft. an ultra-talented lineup including Brooklyn Bread Lab’s Executive Pastry Chef Leah Morrow, Black Seed Bagels’ Executive Chef and Head Baker Dianna Daoheung, Sunday in Brooklyn’s Executive Sous Chef Mallory Cayon, and De Maria’s Executive Chef Adriana Urbina. Free and open to the public! (RSVP is at capacity, but it’s a free event, so if I were you I’d just turn up in case people don’t show.)

FREE: Tonight you can catch a free gig from Raphael Saadiq (we just interviewed him, so check that out) over at Damrosch Park!